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Immigration Law Expert Lenni Benson explores the fate of children who are brought to the US—either by a family member or a smuggler—and whether they should be forgiven their “illegal” […]
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Harvard Psychologist and Education Expert Howard Gardner explains the importance of targeting education outreach to the specific needs of individual communities.
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Farrow insists it is necessary for people to acknowledge and own up to our capacity to do terrible things to each other.
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Farrow, who has traveled extensively as an ambassador for child’s rights, confesses that she no longer cares about an acting career.
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Farrow, adoptive mother of fifteen, discusses how central a role adults can play in the lives of children.
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Other authors fret about the impact of the Web, but Augusten Burroughs “would not want to even be alive” without it.
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Something must have been in those cookies Emily Dickinson was baking, because she “seemed to have been in touch somehow with a lot more than she was in touch with.”
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Augusten Burroughs has called humor the “spoonful of sugar” that relieves the bitterness of his work—sometimes. But does it come naturally?
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The author of “You Better Not Cry” didn’t start writing till he was 24–when he did he quickly learned the importance of reading random, often “really bad” books.
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The “You Better Not Cry” author describes the holiday as a gem of happiness wrapped in a package of tragedy.
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According to Columbia grief therapist Dr. Katherine Shear, we shouldn’t mourn his passing from relevance just yet.
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The grieving process, says the Columbia psychiatrist, doesn’t happen in defined stages; it’s about breaking an “attachment system.”
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Is grief an illness? When does “normal” grief become clinical? Columbia’s Dr. Katherine Shear shares insights from her groundbreaking research.
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Bereavement expert Dr. Katherine Shear reveals what happens inside the grieving brain and offers strategies for coping with loss.
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Columbia bereavement therapist Dr. Katherine Shear discusses her personal encounters with the emotion at the heart of her work.
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If a tiger ran in the room, says Dr. Katherine Shear, we’d all have one. Fortunately, like the tiger, panic attacks can be tamed.
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Duke University Professor Donald H. Taylor, Jr. says the worst health care policy option is the status quo.